2017-2018 / HIST0172-1

Life and society of the ancient world

Duration

30h Th

Number of credits

 Master in history (120 ECTS)5 crédits 
 Master in ancient languages and literatures : classics (120 ECTS)5 crédits 
 Master in history of art and archaeology : general (120 ECTS)5 crédits 
 Master in ancient languages and literatures : Oriental studies (120 ECTS)5 crédits 
 Master in ancient languages and literatures : classics (60 ECTS)5 crédits 
 Master in ancient languages and literatures : Oriental studies (60 ECTS)5 crédits 

Lecturer

Collégialité

Coordinator

Yann Berthelet

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the second semester

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

The seminar will be devoted to archaistic practices in ancient societies. It will be to explore the different modalities of these practices that we, Modernes, qualify as archaistic, in the fields both political and religious as well as artistic and linguistic, and to grasp the main ideological issues. All the specialties (History, History of art and archaeology, Philology, Papyrology, Epigraphy, Numismatics) and all the fields of antiquity (ancient Middle East, Greece, Rome) will be represented.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

The aim of this seminar is to make students particularly aware of the need to engage the different disciplines of antiquity in their research: Philology, History, History of art and archaeology, Epigraphy, Numismatics...

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

None -bearing in mind that History, Archaeology, Philology, Epigraphy, Numismatics, History of religions and History of art form an inseparable whole, which brings together all the specialists of the Altertumswissenschaft.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)

Inter-Departmental collegiality:

  • participation of specialists of Antiquity from the Department of Historical Sciences and the Department of Sciences of Antiquity.
  • possible conferences of foreign speakers.

Recommended or required readings

The course materials and the bibliographical advice will be given by each specialist at the seminar.

Assessment methods and criteria

Writing of a small research work of about ten pages (excluding bibliography and possible annexes) on a topic related to the seminar and defined in agreement with one of the teachers-researchers directly involved in the organization of the course (at exclusion of the student's supervisor).

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

The seminar will be held each week, from Thursday 8th February 2018 (every Thursday 17.00-19.00/Grand Physique, Bât. A1, 1er étage).

Contacts

Coordinateur Pr. Dr. Yann Berthelet Chargé de cours. Université de Liège, Bât. A4 - Histoire de l'Antiquité gréco-romaine, Quai Roosevelt 1B, 4000 Liège - Belgique +32 4 3665606 Yann.Berthelet@ulg.ac.be